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Robert Leslie Bellem
The pulp, Super-Detective, with its adventure hero, Jim Anthony, started out as a competitor to Doc Savage. After 10 issues, the publisher turned Anthony into a hardboiled detective. This Flip…
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Another bookful of Dan Turner stories from 1934, 1941, 1943, and 1946 issues of Spicy Detective, Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective, and Hollywood Detective. Included in this book are: Murder By Proxy…
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Another bookful of Dan Turner Hollywood Detective stories from 1944 and 1945 issues of Speed Detective. Included in this book are: Coffin Frame, Gun From Gotham, Stock Shot, Stars Die…
A FICTION HOUSE PRESS REPRINT: Another bookful of Dan Turner Hollywood Detective stories from 1942 issues of Dan Turner Hollywood Detective. Included in this book are: Beyond Justice, Death on…
Another bookful of Dan Turner stories from 1936, 1937, 1940, 1942, and 1943 issues of Spicy Detective Stories, Speed Detective, and Dan Turner Hollywood Detective. Included in this book are…
Written and created by Robert Leslie Bellem, the hardnosed, feisty, Hollywood Detective, Dan Turner, is featured in eight stories and one comic presentation in this compilation. Read Temporary Corpse, Death’s…
Edwin Truett, Robert Leslie Bellem
Step into the thrilling world of 1940s comic book superheroes with the debut issue of Detective Dime Novels! Join the daring adventures of Doctor Thaddeus C. Harker, a scientific criminologist…
Robert Leslie Bellem,Darrell Schweitzer
This volume collects seven Bellem tales from pulp magazines such as Spicy Mystery Stories,Fifth Column Stories, and The Ghost – Super-Detective. Included are: The Man Who Was Not,Enough…
David Goodis,Robert Leslie Bellem
Today many of the old pulp crime writers have achieved success to one degree or other. Sadly, like so many artists, they had to die before anyone took their work…
Robert Leslie Bellem,Leigh Brackett,G Wayman Jones
The second issue featuring: MURDER IN THE FAMILY by Leigh Brackett THE BEST MOTIVE (Shell Scott) by Richard S. Prather BRING BACK A CORPSE (Mike Shayne) by Brett Halliday ALIBI…
Ellery Watson Calder,Hugh Speer,Robert Leslie Bellem
The Thrills of Horror! Romantic Tales of the Eerie and Occult! You’ll find them in Spicy Mystery-stories of red-blooded men and lovely girls in dangerous situations, in an atmosphere of…
The November 1946 issue of PRIVATE DETECTIVE STORIES features As Dead As They Come, by R.T. Judson; The Worm Has Fangs, by Camford Sheavely; Killers Have Green Eyes, by Laurence…
Spicy pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s published stories dealing with a mix of fantasy, horror, mystery, action-adventure, and suspense, punctuated by episodes of torture, sadism, sex, and risque…
E Hoffmann Price,Robert Leslie Bellem,Justin Case
The Best of Spicy Mystery, Volume 3 contains 11 classic stories by the masters of the genre, complete, uncut, and with the original illustrations. It also includes an all-new introduction…
E Hoffmann Price,W T Ballard,Robert Leslie Bellem
Join Doctor Zeng Tse-Lin’s battle with crime and the Japanese menace in the mysterious world of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Featuring all seven installments: Fangs of Doom, Blood Cargo, Sinister House…
